The National Fascist Union ( Unión Nacional Fascista , UNF ) was a fascist political party formed in Argentina in 1936, as the successor to the Argentine Fascist Party .
16-687: In August 1936, UNF leader Nimio de Anquín attempted to force students at a law school in Cordoba to pledge a statement of support for the Spanish general Francisco Franco . Police responded with a crackdown against Argentine nationalists. Support for the UNF surged after two nationalists were shot in the Colegio Montserrat in 1938. In the aftermath of the Montserrat murders, Anquin denounced
32-621: A follower of the ideas of Charles Maurras after coming into contact with his work. Soon, de Anquín sought to develop his own political ideas by seeking to combine Thomism with Hegelianism , which led him to call for a national syndicalist state. He was a founder of the Instituto San Tomas de Aquino in Córdoba in 1929, a group that would become linked to the Argentine Fascist Party . In 1934, he joined
48-870: A member of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America . In 2018, he declared that "those who are best implementing the social doctrine of the Church are the Chinese", praising China's emphasis on "the common good". He said: "China is evolving very well.... you can not think that the China of today is the China of John Paul II or the Russia of the Cold War". He contrasted its efforts with the Western world where
64-542: A time had a strong following. Subsequently, however, he lost political influence, and his later life was mainly focused on his academic career. A native of Córdoba , de Anquín studied law at the National University of Córdoba . With his studies in Argentina completed, he traveled to Germany to study philosophy under Ernst Cassirer . In Europe , de Aquín developed his interest in politics and became
80-480: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Fascism -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Nimio de Anqu%C3%ADn Nimio de Anquín (12 August 1896 – 16 May 1979) was an Argentine Thomist writer and fascist politician. Seeking to combine European models of fascism with his own attachment to the Catholic Church he led several movements and for
96-592: Is an Argentine prelate of the Catholic Church who was Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences from 1998 to 2022. He was made a bishop in 2001. Having authored many publications in the sciences, he received several honors, including the Légion d’Honneur of France in 2000. Born in Buenos Aires on 8 September 1942, he was ordained a priest of
112-626: The Archdiocese of Buenos Aires on 7 December 1968. At the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum of Rome he was awarded a Ph.D. in sacred theology , the highest level of Church postgraduate studies , with the maximum possible grade of summa cum laude (1978) with the dissertation La gracia como participación de la naturaleza divina según Santo Tomás de Aquino . In 1976 he graduated summa cum laude in philosophy at Perugia University. From 1976 to 1998 he
128-616: The Fascismo Argentino de Córdoba (Blueshirts). By the following year, he had taken over as leader of the group, which had changed its name to the Frente de Fuerzas Fascistas in 1935. Various groups then merged in 1936 to emerge as the Union National Fascista under de Anquin's leadership. A strong admirer of Benito Mussolini and Italian fascism , de Aquín argued that Argentine nacionalismo should follow
144-595: The Church a laughingstock." On 4 April 2022, Pope Francis named Cardinal Peter Turkson to replace him as chancellor of both pontifical academies, and on 5 May, noting he had accepted Sánchez Sorondo's resignation, set Turkson's starting date as 6 June. He was decorated as Cavaliere di Gran Croce of the Italian Republic (1999), official of honour of the Légion d’Honneur of France (2000), Grão Mestre da Ordem de Rio Branco of Brazil (2004), official of Austria (2004) and knight of Chile (2006). He
160-597: The Italian model by seeking to mobilise mass support but that the domestic version of fascism should put a stronger emphasis on the centrality of Catholicism to national identity than its European counterparts did. However, de Anquín found it difficult to lead the fascist movement in the face of opposition. In 1934, he was suspended from his lectureship at the Colegio Nacional de Monserrat , in Córdoba because of
176-545: The concept of the common good is little valued. His comments were widely criticized. Father Bernardo Cervellera, in an editorial in AsiaNews , wrote: "The bishop does not seem to see the slums of Beijing and Shanghai, the expulsion of migrants, the oppression of religious freedom. Appreciation for the Paris climate agreements, but silence on the links between wealth, corruption and pollution. An ideological approach that makes
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#1732792990666192-540: The journals Sol y Luna and Nueva Politica and, on a more religious note, the group of intellectuals around Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo . He also wrote in praise of Adolf Hitler by stating in 1941 that "by the work of the great Hitler, liberalism and ugly democracy have died." He continued to write on political matters until late in his life and inevitably focused on his two favoured themes of militant nationalism and anti-democracy. Marcelo S%C3%A1nchez Sorondo Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo (born 8 September 1942)
208-507: The middle and upper class for complicity and cowardice and claimed that " communism , Judaism , and degenerate Radicalism" were responsible for causing the murders. Anquín called for the mourners to swear "by God, honour, and the Fatherland, to return the homicidal bullet". By 1939, the UNF was largely defunct, and Anquín returned to his hometown to resume his earlier career as a lecturer. This article about an Argentine political party
224-525: The violence of his movement. The violence continued, however, until active repression began in late 1936, when he attempted to force university students to sign a letter in support of Francisco Franco . By 1939, the Union National Fascista was effectively moribund. With his movement now defunct, de Anquín returned to lecturing, initially in his home town then later in Santa Fe . He did not abandon politics altogether, however, and became associated with
240-660: Was lecturer in the history of philosophy at the Lateran University in Rome where from 1982 on he was full professor in the same discipline. He was dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the same university for three consecutive terms from 1987 to 1996. From 1998 to 2014 he was full professor of the history of philosophy at the Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta (Rome) and in the same year
256-458: Was appointed president of the degree course in science of education . On 5 October 1998 he was appointed Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences . In March 1999, he was also appointed Secretary Prelate of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas . On 19 March 2001, Pope John Paul II consecrated him a bishop as titular bishop of Vescovio . On 19 July 2011, Pope Benedict XVI made him
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